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BREAKING: Punisher spinoff officially ordered by Netflix

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BREAKING: Punisher spinoff officially ordered by Netflix

In news we’ve been waiting for since we first laid eyes on The Walking Dead‘s Jon Bernthal all bloodied up and musclebound in season two of Marvel’s Daredevil, gun-toting vigilante Punisher will officially be given his own Netflix spinoff, according to ComingSoon.net.

You may remember us gushing about how fantastic Bernthal is in the role of Frank Castle / Punisher, and it seems the whole world agrees with us. We know so far that in the new spinoff show, which has just been officially ordered by Netflix, Bernthal will reprise his role as Frank Castle, with Hannibal executive producer Steve Lightfoot set to serve as showrunner.

This latest commission for a Marvel x Netflix collaboration comes hot off the heels of hugely successful series Daredevil and Jessica Jones. Marvel’s Luke Cage will premiere on the streaming service this September, and Marvel’s Iron Fist is currently in production. All four of these series will culminate in the much anticipated Defenders team up, which we expect to see before the Punisherseries hits our screens.

More info on all Netflix x Marvel news as we hear it, but in the meantime can we please just take a minute to relive this scene?

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7 massive questions left unanswered by Daredevil season 2

If you haven’t finished watching Marvel’sDaredevil season 2 yet, we can’t be friends. Well, we can, you just shouldn’t really be reading this article, which is about to get jam packed with spoilers. We wouldn’t want to ruin the fun, so we’ll see you back here once you’ve polished off episode 13…

Anyway, for those of you committed enough to have watched the whole series already, don’t move! We have so much to talk about! Wasn’t it amazing? Yes. However, we hate to admit, we were still left wanting in places. Didn’t there just seem to be so many elements teased and tempted, yet left without a satisfactory explanation by the end? I know, building up suspense for the next season and such is tactical, but c’mon Netflix – don’t leave us hanging like this! These are just seven of the kinds of things we’re talking about…

1. What’s Karen’s big secret?

We’ve always suspected that Karen ‘The Murderer’ Page isn’t as sweet and innocent as she makes out to be, especially since she’s become such a fan of the Punisher’s ruthless approach to bad guys. So of course our feelers pricked up when the research file she found on the late great Ben Urich’s old desk labeled ‘Karen Page’ sent her into an immediate state of panic. Reading the barely legible newspaper clipping shown above, it seems that Karen’s sixteen-year-old brother died in a car crash, however the date of the event is not shown. Thinking ‘Tyanna Lazauskas’ could be a deep cut comic clue, we gave it a Google, which only informed us that the name’s been taken from a member of the show’s art department. So we’re going to have to wait a while to get any further info on this one.

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2. What exactly is the Black Sky?

There we were thinking Black Sky was this kid from Season 1 who got arrowed in the face by Stick, and then *boom*, Black Sky is now Elektra. Maybe we’d had too many glasses of wine by that point, but the revelation about Elektra seemed pretty vague. We know how dangerous the Black Sky is supposed to be, and how much The Hand wants it, but why this is, we’re not so sure. Somebody please explain?!

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3. What was that massive hole about?

Apparently a literal hole in the plot, we didn’t get any explanation of the seemingly bottomless pit encountered by Daredevil and Elektra at the end of episode 7. Which is annoying, because we were hoping it would transpire that those cheeky members of The Hand had dug their way into Hell’s Kitchen all the way from Japan. It could have been the most incredible device, and it may be yet. We sincerely hope it gets picked up in Daredevil season 3 or The Defenders; whenever those may be.

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4. What was the deal with these spooky kids?

These guys were so weird! We know that The Hand was draining them of their blood, which is bound to make anyone go a little crazy, but there definitely had to be something else in the mix that saw them become murderous zombies. The ever wise Claire Temple suggested that maybe some enzyme got carried over into their systems if they were being used as incubators of some sort, but it seems pretty farfetched that her stab in the dark – as someone completely removed from all that stuff – would actually be the answer. Surely it has something to do with Nobu’s secret to resurrection, but we’ll have to see if that gets any further explanation.

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5. What happened to Stone?

Kind of like the confusion surrounding the Shredder in 2014’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, we got a glimpse of this mysterious character in episode 7 of Daredevil‘s first season, where he was briefly shown talking to Stick. We know from the comics that Stone was a favoured pupil of Stick’s, and that he helped to train both Daredevil and Elektra. In the comics he’s also second in command of The Chaste after Stick, so we were expecting to see him getting amongst the ‘war’ against The Hand, but didn’t get the satisfaction. We imagine actor Jasson Finney’s just as baffled about his lack of screen time as we are.

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6. Does the Punisher know Daredevil’s true identity?

We thought that Matt Murdock’s impassioned speech about vigilantism while Frank Castle took the witness stand had sparked a lightbulb moment in the latter, leading him to discover who it was behind that horny helmet. Maybe it had, and the show was just too subtle to make anything verbal of it. Maybe. Then in the final episode when Daredevil’s helmet gets kicked off by Nobu (how great were those effects, btw?!), the Punisher watches on from the roof of a nearby building. Was he close enough to see the identity of Murdock’s cute little face? And what exactly was it that converted him to join Daredevil’s side at the last minute? Hopefully time will tell.

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7. What’s next for the Kingpin?

After coming close to having our beloved Punisher murdered, the currently incarcerated Wilson Fisk had an in-prison chat with Matt Murdock, who ill-advisedly threatened to use the almighty ice queen Vanessa against him, invoking the rage of the world’s biggest, scariest grownup baby. “I’d like to re-examine Matthew Murdock’s files,” he says ominously in his final appearance of the season. While the part he played was excellently written and totally intriguing, we were disappointed that Fisk didn’t have a bigger part to play in this season. Will he be the big boss again in season 3?

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In spite of its occasional blank spots, the second season of Daredevil certainly packed a punch, and we loved every moment of it, no matter how complicated or confusing. We can’t wait to watch the next instalment of Marvel x Netflix programming, Luke Cage, when it premieres on September 30th of this year. Check out the first teaser trailer now.

7 reasons why The Walking Dead’s Jon Berthal is the hottest actor on TV right now

In case you didn’t already know, we absolutely love the new season of Marvel’s Daredevil, which has just been added to Netflix. Along with its world class writing, direction, and choreography, one of… read more

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7 reasons why The Walking Dead’s Jon Berthal is the hottest actor on TV right now

In case you didn’t already know, we absolutely love the new season of Marvel’s Daredevil, which has just been added to Netflix. Along with its world class writing, direction, and choreography, one of the main reasons we love the new seriesso damn much is new cast member Jon Berthal.

Having already won our hearts as complex Shane Walsh in The Walking Dead, as well as in his film roles in The Wolf of Wall Street, Fury, and Sicario, the 39-year-old actor has now punched and growled his way into a game-changing portrayal of Frank Castle, A.K.A. The Punisher – perhaps the grittiest antihero of the Marvel Comics Universe.

We think he might just be our favourite actor on TV at the moment; and we watch a whole lot of TV. So in celebration of the beauty that is the Bernthal, here are 7 reasons why you should love him too.

1. He’s the best Punisher we’ve seen so far

Casting directors are acutely aware that it’s nigh on impossible to cast an actor in a comic book role without invoking the ire of internet fanboys and girls. But on June 9th of last year, an overwhelming consensus agreed that Bernthal and his perpetually broken nose would make the perfect Punisher.

“Growing up, I was attracted to danger and to trouble. This art, this craft, this work gave me direction. All of a sudden, that same wildness ended up being one of my greatest weapons”, he revealed in a recent interview. And indeed, that raw energy is what makes him so suited to the rage-filled, vengeful Punisher.

He’s also humble, though. When asked for his response to the hype surrounding his casting, this is what Bernthal said: “Part of me would rather everybody had said ‘That’s the worst, that guy sucks’! [It] did not embolden me, or let me hold my chin high. It just said, ‘Time to go to work, motherf***er'”. Just how Frank Castle would’ve wanted.

2. He’s versatile

Far from a one-trick pony, Bernthal has proven he’s capable of taking on a number of diverse roles. He was almost unrecognisable as fast talking Jewish lawyer Michael H. Sussman in one of our favourite shows of 2015, Show Me a Hero, and we were surprised to see him pop up as Greg’s cool, tattooed History teacher in bittersweet teen comedy Me and Earl and the Dying Girl. He was also absolutely hilarious as Brad, the iron-pumping ‘Quaalude King’ in The Wolf of Wall Street. Is there anything this guy can’t do? We can’t wait to see what other characters he has lined up to join his repertoire.

3. He’s supportive of young talent

Our hearts melted when we learned Jon Bernthal and youngster Tom Holland teamed up to film their Marvel audition tapes together. Having met on the set of Irish period drama Pilgrimage (yet another string to add to Bernthal’s bow), the two became friends, and helped one another to audition for the roles of the Punisher and Spider-Man respectively. As we now know, their efforts were successful, as both were cast. Awww 🙂

The story’s made even cuter by the relationship between the Punisher and Spider-Man in Marvel’s Civil War comics, as Punisher is the one who rescues Spider-Man after he’s almost beaten to death by the super villains Tony Stark unleashes to try and bring Peter Parker back to the pro-reg side of things. We seriously hope this comes into play in the upcoming Captain America: Civil War movie…

4. He’s the sweetest family man

Jonny and his beautiful wife Erin Angle have three adorable kids, which is something the actor says helped him get into character for Frank Castle; a man hell-bent on avenging the murder of his wife, son and daughter.

“There’s no way I could even begin to tackle this role if I wasn’t a father and a husband in my mind”, he said at the Daredevil premiere last week. “My family means everything to me”, he continued. “You realise what it’s like to love somebody more than yourself and be willing to give up your life for them in a heartbeat”.

And, I mean, will you just look at this Tweet? Can’t deal.

5. He takes his roles seriously

This is the man who, while shooting for David Ayer’s Fury, didn’t see his family until it wrapped – including his newborn baby. And as we know, family is huge for Bernthal. He also went all out to prepare for his role as the Punisher. “Here’s a guy who’s had the thing he cares about most in the world taken from him forever. It’s important not to spend your nights with creature comforts of a hotel and going to restaurants and partying”, he said in a recent interview.

“I go dark for a couple of months while I find the character”, he told Empire of his process, which for Daredevil saw him strapping on a backpack filled with weights and walking the deserted streets of Brooklyn, trying to ‘find Frank Castle’. “I’m giving it everything I have. This character and his philosophies and the ideas behind it are tremendously important to me”, said Bernthal. And believe us, it really comes through in the show.

6. He’s a great friend

In particular, he loves Norman Reedus.

“Look, outside of my family, there’s nobody in this world I love like Norman Reedus. I love that dude with everything I got”, Bernthal said about his Walking Dead co-star.

We were well and truly moved by Frank Castle’s chemistry with the gorgeous Staffordshire Bull Terrier (played by Bernthal’s own dog) in this season of Marvel’s Daredevil. He takes the dog under his wing, and the love between the two is just so beautiful. When tortured himself, Castle gives up nothing to the enemy. But when the dog is threatened, he spills the beans to save its life.

Here’s real life Bernthal with his beloved pooches Boss and Venice, who regularly appear alongside him in photoshoots, talking about responsible pit bull ownership for the Majority Project. What a man.

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Catch Jon Bernthal as the Punisher/Frank Castle in season 2 of Marvel’s Daredevil, streaming on Netflix now.

REVIEW: Marvel’s Daredevil achieves the impossible with even stronger second season

As the runaway success of its first season gave rise to smash hit Marvel’s Jessica Jones, plus the much anticipated Defenders series to follow, you could say the bar for season two of Marvel’s Daredevil had been… read more

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REVIEW: Marvel’s Daredevil achieves the impossible with even stronger second season

As the runaway success of its first season gave rise to smash hit Marvel’s Jessica Jones, plus the much anticipated Defenders series to follow, you could say the bar for season two ofMarvel’s Daredevil had been set pretty high. Now, after an eleven-month interval since first falling in love with Matt Murdock and co. (yes, I’ve been counting), I say without exaggeration thatNetflix has achieved the impossible with the show’s return. Benefiting from two formidable additions to the cast, the further development of our favourite existing characters, a hearty serving of unforgettable fight scenes, and even a much yearned for injection of romance, this new instalment of Marvel’s Daredevil manages to rise above and beyond the exemplary standard set by the show’s debut run. Even if it’s still too dark to see what’s going on half the damn time…

With the unmatchable Kingpin (Vincent D’Onofrio) seemingly locked away at the end of Daredevil 1, my main reservation about the show’s followup season was that the scene-stealing villain’s shoes would not be sufficiently filled. I mean, how could they be, when that character was so uniquely chilling; so imposing in his physical strength, and so ready to flip from zero to one hundred in a heartbeat? Who or what could possibly top that? Luckily, new showrunners Doug Petrie and Marco Ramirez (replacing season one boss Steven DeKnight) found the answer; the Punisher.

The genius of introducing Punisher as a foil for Daredevil lies in the duo’s ambiguous moral ground; the difference being that the new troubled antihero on the scene, portrayed masterfully by The Walking Dead‘sJon Bernthal, has well and truly crossed the line that Daredevil tentatively toes. “You hit them and they get back up. I hit them and they stay down”, he growls at Daredevil, now endearingly nicknamed ‘Red’, as the two compare their philosophies on a rooftop. In fact, the Punisher’s ruthless approach to bad guys (adopted both in his service as a Marine, and in response to personal tragedy) actually makes our titular hero seem kind of ineffective at times. Murdock would rather let the offender go, free to continue a life of crime at the expense of the innocent, than borrow from Punisher’s book and just shoot the guy already. Their differing brands of vigilantism are starkly pitched against one another, with Punisher painting Daredevil’s humanity as a weakness. Of course, it’s the vulnerability afforded by his own deeply buried humanity that Punisher’s most afraid of. It’s seriously compelling stuff.

If anyone’s pathologically insane in the series, though, it’s not Frank Castle’s Punisher; it’s Elektra Natchios. Given a new lease of life by soon-to-see-her-everywhere Elodie Yung, the character once consigned to the cultural trash heap by that Jennifer Garner film sashays onto the scene just as our hero’s personal life seems to be assuming some level of functionality. She’s cold, calculating, and every bit the physical match for her former flame Matt Murdock. On top of dragging Daredevil into a whole new world of drama, the timing of her entrance could not be more frustrating, as the unresolved tension between Matt and another lovely lady friend has just began to blossom in the form of the most breathtaking romantic sequence we’ve seen in some time. But anyway, it’s not that kind of show. We won’t see Daredevil riding off into the sunset any time soon.

It’s not just the shiny new toys that make this new season of Daredevil so enthralling, though. The exceptional Charlie Cox gets to show some different sides to himself than the serious and the shirtless, as new challenges bring out more of Daredevil’s complexities and Matt Murdock’s personal life is also further explored. Now that Wilson Fisk appears to be out of the picture, Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll) is a dog with a new bone on the case of Frank Castle’s shrouded past, and even Foggy (Elden Henson) is afforded greater maturity as a player. It’s a pleasure to see Rosario Dawson return as the tireless Claire Temple, making wink-wink-nod-nod references to her part in Jessica Jones, and my left of field love for (as yet) minor character Melvin the costumier is satisfied by his brief but charming appearances.

From the seven episodes kindly provided me by Netflix for preview, I’m confident in saying that season two only sees Daredevil going from strength to strength. The absence of fan favourite Steven DeKnight is all but imperceptible, as the level of writing, acting, choreography and direction remains consistent with the first season, and the added elements brought by the new storylines afford opportunities for finer tuning and greater sophistication. Netflix, you’ve done it again!

All 14 episodes of Marvel’s Daredevil are available to Netflix subscribers from Friday, March 18th.

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The 10 best additions to Netflix UK this March

March has come around quickly this year and brought with it a whole host of exciting titles joining Netflix UK. A multitude of new titles and original content is coming your way, along with returning series with some of our favourite characters. So sit back, relax and march on into Spring with the 10 best additions to Netflix this month.

House of Cards: Season 4 (2016)

Frank Underwood is back for the fourth instalment of the political drama. Competing with the craziness of the current real life presidential campaigning, season four is stepping it up a gear. Scream veteran Neve Campbell joins the cast as ruthless strategist Leann Harvey whilst Joel Kinnaman (of upcoming film Suicide Squad) has joined in a yet undisclosed role. Rumour also has it that the Underwoods may be getting some new rivals. Bring it on.

Available 04.03.2016

The Characters (2016)

In their usual “no one does it like us” style, Netflix have given eight comedians complete free reign to write and star in their own 30-minute episode. The comedians include Orange is the New Black‘s Lauren Lapkus and Saturday Night Live‘s Tim Robinson. Expect a whole host of bizarre characters to light up your life in this Netflix Original.

Available 11.03.2016

Flaked: Season 1 (2016)

Another comedy offering from Will Arnett, Flaked follows successes like Arrested Development and Bojack Horseman. Arnett stars as a self-help guru who struggles to keep up with his own lies. He also manages to fall for waitress, London, who is the object of his best friend’s fascination. Awks.

Available 11.03.2016

Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

As Steve Rogers adjusts to modern life in the Big Apple, a crisis unfolds at the spy agency S.H.I.E.L.D. which forces the Captain on the run. Teaming up with Black Widow and The Falcon, he must face the mysterious assassin known as “The Winter Soldier”. Little does he know that this new foe may be more familiar than he realises.

Available 12.03.2016

Marvel’s Daredevil: Season 2 (2016)

Our favourite blind vigilante is back, and there’s a new bad guy promising to stir up a whole lot of trouble in Hell’s Kitchen. How will the newly suited and booted Matt Murdock A.K.A Daredevil fare against Frank Castle A.K.A The Punisher in this much anticipated second season of the gritty superhero show?

Available 18.03.2016

Pee-wee’s Big Holiday (2016)

Netflix’s latest original will see Paul Reubens’ beloved character Pee-wee Herman take his first ever holiday after a fateful meeting with a mysterious stranger (Joe Manganiello). His travels will take him to New York City, a snake farm and an amish community amongst other weird and wonderful places.

Available 18.03.2016

Jimmy Carr: Funny Business (2016)

Standing out from the crowd (and not for the usual reasons), Jimmy Carr decided not to release the usual Christmas DVD in 2015. Instead, in a first for Netflix UK, the comedian had the show recorded in order to be exclusively released on the streaming service. Expect the usual jokes that don’t just cross the line, but obliterate it.

Available 18.03.2016

My Beautiful Broken Brain (2016)

Director of Mulholland Drive, David Lynch, is at the helm of the latest Netflix documentary. After surviving a hemorrhagic stroke, Lotje Sodderland must contend with a dizzying and frightening world. Starting from scratch with language and logic, she discovers this world is teeming with new colours and sounds.

Available 18.03.2016

Brave (2012)

Pixar attempt to empower women in this animated tale set in the Scottish Highlands. Princess Merida defies tradition by refusing to get married. Wanting to break free from her oppressive situation, Merida enlists the help of a witch but ends up getting more than she bargained for.

Available 26.03.2016

The Gift (2015)

In his directorial debut, Joel Edgerton (of Black Mass and The Great Gatsby) presents this psychological thriller set in LA suburbia. Rebecca Hall and Jason Bateman play happy couple Robyn and Simon who move from busy Chicago to their dream house in LA. When Simon’s old school friend, Gordo (Edgerton), comes into their lives, things start taking a turn for the unusual. As a terrifying secret emerges, Robyn begins to realise she doesn’t know her husband at all. Read our interview with director and star Joel Edgerton here.

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Hell’s Kitchen ‘about to explode’ in Daredevil Season 2 trailer

‘No good deed goes unpunished’, read bold gothic letters in the first official trailer for season two of Marvel’s Daredevil. The quote, of course, refers to Frank Castle, a.k.a The Punisher, whom we know will act as Matt Murdock’s main adversary in this next instalment of the Netflix original series.

Played by Jon Bernthal, we get more than a tantalising taste of the Punisher in the new trailer; and my goodness, do we like what we see. “You’re one bad day away from being me”, he taunts a newly suited and booted Daredevil – a hero notorious for his grey-area morality.

“You hit them and they get back up. I hit them and they stay down”, Castle shouts, as our pulses race wildly. Could we see our favourite blind vigilante crossing over to the dark side as his native Hell’s Kitchen is “about to explode” from a number of malevolent new forces in this season?

Along with the familiar Catholic undertones and worried faces of Karen, Claire and Foggy, we once again get to see Charlie Cox without a shirt on, and Netflix has succeeded in sending our excitement through the roof. But wait! We know there’s yet another trick up their sleeves; Elektra (Elodie Yung), whose appearance in the teaser is brief yet irresistible.

While the footage shown in the trailer has us wishing Daredevil‘s March 18th return date would hurry up and come around sooner, our minds are also racing about what it omits. Kingpin? Jessica Jones? Luke Cage?

We hope the show’s second trailer, set to drop in ten days’ time on February 25th, will reveal more.

All 13 episodes of Marvel’s Daredevil season 2 will hit Netflix on March 18.

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Anyone who still looks up their possessive, obsessive, manipulative ex-boyfriend on Facebook from time to time lives with the nagging compulsion to jump in and protect whichever smiling new innocent he now poses with on his arm. Superheroine Jessica Jones knows this feeling all too well; albeit in a much more dramatic and sinister way.

This dynamic between Krysten Ritter’s titular character and her arch nemesis cum former lover Kilgrave (David Tennant) lays the basic foundation of Marvel’s Jessica Jones. Then, add in some bone-chilling abuse of telepathic powers and the insatiable sex drives of two superheroes, and you’ve got a pretty good idea of the show, without this journalist violating her embargo.

“Be advised: this is no fluffy series”

The whole issue with ‘the ex’ perhaps explains why Netflix’s latest original has been advertised in such ‘women’s publications’ as fashion magazines and gossip sites. Or maybe that’s because Jessica Jones comes from Tall Girls Productions – the production company of Twilight saga screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg. Yet be advised that this is no fluffy series. Marvel’s resident lonely girl Jessica is a rude, no bullshit kind of badass, who’s not afraid of slamming doors in people’s faces, downing a bottle of Jack Daniels in bed, or using language that would make Captain America retreat in horror (I am referring in particular to her lovely phrase: “I don’t give a bag of dicks”).

Keeping to a strict uniform of black tank tops, boyfriend shirts, jeans and a leather jacket, Jessica puts up the front of an ice queen who’s not to be messed with. “Don’t have feelings, okay?” she advises Rachael Taylor’s character Trish Walker. Yet as the series progresses, we learn that Jessica doesn’t keep friends because she doesn’t want to see them hurt. “My weakness? Sometimes I give a damn,” she confesses in voiceover. She may not want you to know it, but she’s kind, empathic, and not as tough as she looks. Underneath that super-strong exterior is a woman much like the protagonist of a Lana Del Rey song, rendered eternally fragile by the man she once loved, who now haunts her life like the cockroach that won’t leave her bathroom. And in spite of her struggle to maintain an emotional distance from the rest of the world, we rally for her to emerge victorious.

Much like Kingpin in Marvel’s Daredevil, Kilgrave’s unconventional villainy is precisely what makes him so disturbing. A malevolent master of mind-control, his seemingly omnipotent presence has us as paranoid as Jessica is that danger lurks around every corner, and in every shadow. His evil can take on any form, meaning no one can be let in, and no one can be trusted.

“The unbreakable Luke Cage proves that black literally don’t crack”

This brings us to the unbreakable Luke Cage. Played beautifully by live action Halo star Mike Colter, the honourable bar tender with superpowers of his own proves that black literally don’t crack; even when struck by a broken bottle, or attacked with a circular saw. Cage’s role in Jessica Jones is sure to convert many new devotees in advance of his own Netflix/Marvel series debuting next year, and the immaculate choreography of his joint fight scenes with Jessica will make fans of Daredevil think back fondly to that iconic one-shot hallway fight scene, or the raid on Madame Gao’s heroin cookout.

Other jewels in Jessica Jones’s crown include Carrie-Anne Moss as Jeri Hogarth, a ball-buster lawyer who manages to put even the insubordinate Jessica in her place, and the previously mentioned Rachael Taylor as Trish Walker, whom we can safely assume is a new incarnation of Patsy Walker (A.K.A The Defenders‘ Hellcat). Importantly, the women in Marvel’s Jessica Jones are sharp, assertive and powerful as they try to survive independently in a corrupted city, yet not without empathy or weakness, meaning we finally have a ‘female’ superhero show that’s tough, dark, real, and doesn’t reek of tokenism.

The result is a decidedly more mature Marvel project which, coupled with Marvel’s Daredevil, marks a graduation from the shiny reds, whites and blues of The Avengers, and a move towards significantly more savage and cynical territory. We simply can’t get enough of it. Bring on The Defenders!

Video: Netflix announces Marvel’s Jessica Jones release date

We’ve been seriously excited about the upcoming Netflix original Marvel’s Jessica Jones since we polished off the whole season of Marvel’s Daredevil in an embarrassingly (yet somewhat impressively) short amount of time. Now,… read more

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Video: Netflix announces Marvel’s Jessica Jones release date

We’ve been seriously excited about the upcoming Netflix original Marvel’s Jessica Jonessince we polished off the whole season of Marvel’s Daredevil in an embarrassingly (yet somewhat impressively) short amount of time. Now, we’re very pleased to announce that Breaking Bad beauty Krysten Ritter will make her on-screen debut as the former superheroine-cum-detective when Marvel’s Jessica Jones joins Netflix at 8:01am GMT this November 20th.

The thirteen-episode series begins with Jessica Jones rebuilding her personal life and detective career after tragic events ended her short-lived stint as a superhero. Jones’s home city of Hell’s Kitchen, New York, exists in the same universe as Matt Murdock’s in Marvel’s Daredevil, and her eponymous series will be the second of four thrilling stages towards an epic TV team-up involving Jessica Jones herself, Daredevil, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist, to be known as Marvel’s The Defenders.

To accompany the date announcement, Netflix has unleashed this first teaser clip for Marvel’s Jessica Jones, entitled ‘It’s Time’.

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Netflix’s Daredevil Casts Elektra

The Netflix original series Marvel’s Daredevil has cast Elodie Yung (G.I. Joe Retaliation and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) as Elektra.

The mysterious woman from Matt Murdock’s past, is described as having dangerous and exotic ways which may be more than the superhero can handle. In the comics Elektra Natchios studied martial arts with Stick, who was also Murdock’s sensei, and spent time as an assassin and bounty hunter.

Jennifer Garner played the same character in Marvel’s 2003 “Daredevil” movie starring Ben Affleck and then in her own solo spinoff film in 2005, and while the first season of Netflix’s Daredevil made reference to Elektra, Yung will actually bring one of Daredevil’s fan-favourite characters to life within the show.

Executive produce and Head of Marvel Television Jeph Loeb, had this to say on the actress: “After a worldwide search, we found in Elodie the perfect actress to embody both Elektra’s impressive and deadly physicality, as well as her psychological complexity.”

He continues: “Paired with Charlie as Matt Murdock, the two will bring one of the most beloved and tumultuous comic book relationships to life with all the accompanying sparks and spectacular action sequences the show is known for.”

Elektra marks the most recent major addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, as she will join Jon Bernthal as Frank Castle in the upcoming season.

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The Walking Dead’s Jon Bernthal To Play The Punisher on Marvel’s Daredevil

The Walking Dead star Jon Bernthal will play Frank Castle a.k.a. The Punisher on Marvel’s Daredevil.

Like Daredevil, The Punisher is also a morally-dubious vigilante determined to clean up to streets of New York’s Hells Kitchen. However, the Punisher is a tad more brutal about it. His alter ego is war veteran Frank Castle, a martial arts expert whose family were executed by the mafia, prompting the Punisher’s hatred and savage revenge on the evil streets of New York.

Bernthal played the best friend of series protagonist Rick Grimes, Shane Walsh, for two seasons on the Walking Dead. Following an affair with Rick’s wife, Shane left the survivors group and later plotted to kill Rick. His life was eventually ended by Rick.

Speaking of the exciting appointment, Marvel head of TV Jeph Loeb said, “Jon Bernthal brings an unmatched intensity to every role he takes on, with a potent blend of power, motivation and vulnerability that will connect with audiences. Castle’s appearance will bring dramatic changes to the world of Matt Murdock and nothing will be the same.”